Re: Xorg not working with Matrox G550?? MGAGetBOARDHANDLESize

On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 06:34:05AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2006 at 08:55:58AM +0200, Simo Kauppi wrote:
> > Did you try to use both the mga_drv and the hal library from Matrox?
> > The latest version is 4.3 and they seem to run with X.Org 6.9.
>
> The 4.3 driver I have from Matrox does not work with 6.9:

I'm using it right now, so it does work. The install script might not
work as Matrox is probably not 100% sure it works with 6.9.

You can just tar xzf the tarball and cp the files from 6.8.2 to
/usr/X11R6/...

Anyway, the standard mga driver from X.Org should work as well (without
the Hallib of course).

Are you using framebuffer?

> No, I'm not asking how to restart xdm. (I'm not using xdm, I'm just
> running startx.) I was asking how I could do:
>
> laptop: $ ssh desktop
> desktop: $ DISPLAY=0.0 startx -- +xinerama

I know. I just didn't know what you have there.

So, if I get this correctly:
- the Matrox is in your desktop
- the desktop screen is blank
- you ssh from laptop to the desktop
- you try to get X started in the destop using your ssh session

The main point is that you should start X server in the desktop. I.e.
you are not trying to make a remote X session (because the problem is
in the X server).

If you have your X running in the desktop, you should kill it first.

If you don't have any session managers in your desktop, you could try
DISPLAY=desktop:0.0 startx
where 'desktop' is the name of your desktop machine.

If that doesn't work, you should be able to start X with just
X
I'm not sure if it starts without session manager though.

Also, could you post the device sections and any relevant serverflags
and serverlayout sections from your xorg.conf.

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> Bill Moseley
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Simo
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